The following is a list of Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the languages of China.
A
[edit]B
[edit]- Bai Juyi or Bo Juyi
- Consort Ban
- Ban Gu (32–92 A.D.)[1]
- Bei Dao
- Bei Ling
- Bian Zhilin
C
[edit]- Cai Wenji
- Cai Yong
- Cao Cao 曹操
- Cao Pi
- Cao Zhi
- Cen Shen
- Chen Sanli
- Chen Nianxi
- Chen Yinke
- Chen Zi'ang
- Chūgan Engetsu (1300–1375), Japanese poet who wrote in Chinese, a figure in "Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains" (literature in Chinese written in Japan)
- Cui Hao, Tang dynasty poet
D
[edit]- Dai Biaoyuan
- Dai Wangshu
- Dong Xiaowan
- Du Fu 杜甫, the "Poet Sage"
- Du Mu (803-852), Tang poet, official
- Duo Duo
E
[edit]F
[edit]- Fei Ye 菲野
- Fenggan, "Big Stick", a legendary Buddhist Monk. He was an associate of the famous legendary poets Han Shan and Shih Te.
G
[edit]- Gao Qi, Ming dynasty poet
- Gidō Shūshin
- Gong Zizhen
- Gu Cheng
- Gu Taiqing
- Guan Daosheng
- Guo Moruo, poet, historian, archaeologist
H
[edit]- Hai Zi 海子, modern mystic poet
- Han Yu 韩愈
- Han Shan, "Cold Mountain"
- He Zhizhang
- Huang Tingjian 黄庭堅 (1045–1105)
- Huarui Furen
- Huang Zongxi
I
[edit]J
[edit]- Jao Tsung-I
- Ji Xian (b. 1903), leading Taiwanese modernist[2]
- Jia Dao 贾岛
- Jia Yi
- Jiang Yan
K
[edit]L
[edit]- Leung Ping-kwan[3]
- Li E
- Li Bai (Li Po), the "Poet Immortal"
- Li He
- Li Qiao
- Li Qingzhao
- Li Shangyin
- Li Yu (Li Houzhu)
- Liang Desheng
- Liang Huang
- Lin Huiyin
- Liu Yuxi
- Liu Zongyuan
- Lu Guimong
- Lu Ji
- Lu You
- Lu Yu
- Lu Zhaolin
- Lu Zhi
- Luo Binwang
M
[edit]- Ma Rong
- Mang Ke
- Mao Zedong
- Mei Yaochen, Song dynasty poet
- Meng Haoran, Tang dynasty poet
- Mi Heng
- Mu Dan
N
[edit]- Natsume Sōseki, Japan's modern composer of Chinese poetry
- Nalan Xingde
- Nie Gannu
O
[edit]P
[edit]Q
[edit]- Qian Zhongshu
- Qin Zihao (1902–1963), leading Taiwanese modernist[2]
- Qiu Jin
- Qiu Wei
- Qu Yuan, State of Chu poet
- Quan Deyu
- Qiao Ji
R
[edit]S
[edit]- Shangguan Wan'er (上官婉儿)
- Shen Shanbao (沈善宝)
- Shen Yue (沈约)
- Shen Quanqi (沈佺期)
- Shi Zhi"index finger" (食指,郭路生)
- Shih-Te, "Pick-Up" (拾得)
- Shih-wu, "Stonehouse" (石屋)
- Shivaza Iasyr, wrote in the Dungan (Soviet Hui people) dialect (雅斯尔·十娃子 or 亚瑟尔·十娃子)
- Shu Ting (舒婷)
- Sima Xiangru (司马相如)
- Song Yu (宋玉)
- Su Shi (苏轼)
- Su Xiaoxiao (苏小小)
- Shang Ting (商挺)
T
[edit]- Tao Qian, also known as Tao Yuanming
W
[edit]- Wang Anshi
- Wang Bo
- Wang Can
- Wang Changling
- Wang Rong
- Wang Wei (Tang dynasty), the "Poet Buddha"
- Wang Wei (17th-century poet)
- Wang Yi-Ch'eng, poet
- Wang Yun (Qing dynasty)
- Wei Yuan
- Wei Zhuang
- Wen Tingyun
- Wen Yiduo
- Wu Cheng'en, Ming novelist, poet
- Wu Jiaji
- Wu Zao[4]
X
[edit]- Xi Chuan
- Xi Kang (or Ji Kang)
- Xi Xi
- Xiao Gang (Emperor Jianwen of Liang)
- Xie Lingyun
- Xie Tiao
- Xin Qiji
- Lady Xu Mu
- Xu Zhi Mo 1895–1931, melancholic poet of early 20th century
- Xu Zihua
- Xue Tao 768-831
Y
[edit]- Yang Jiong
- Yang Lian
- Yang Wanli
- Yang Xiong
- Yao Shouzhong
- Yao Sui
- John Yau
- Chia-ying Yeh
- Yu Xin
- Yu Xiuhua
- Yu Xuanji
- Yuan Hongdao
- Yuan Zhen
- Yuan Zhongdao
Z
[edit]- Zhai Yongming
- Zhang Heng
- Zhang Hua
- Zhang Ji (poet from Hubei)
- Zhang Ji (poet from Jiangnan)
- Zhang Jiuling
- Zhang Xu
- Zhang Yaotiao (Tang Geji poet)[5]
- Zhao Luanluan (Yuan dynasty poet)[6]
- Zhao Luorui
- Zhang Zhidong
- Zheng Min
- Zheng Yunduan
- Zhu Shuzhen
- Zhuo Wenjun
- Zuo Si
See also
[edit]- Chinese poetry
- Song Dynasty poets (list)
- List of Three Hundred Tang Poems poets
- Tang Dynasty poets (list)
- List of Chinese authors
- List of Chinese women writers
- List of Hong Kong poets
Notes
[edit]- ^ Minford, John, and Joseph S. M. Lau, Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations, New York: Columbia University Press ISBN 0-231-09676-3 and Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press ISBN 962-201-625-1 , 2000
- ^ a b Greene, Roland; et al., eds. (2012). "Modern poetry of China". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4th rev. ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 232–235. ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6.
- ^ "Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Leung Ping-kwan". Asiancha.com. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
- ^ Barnstone, Tony; Chou, Ping (2010). The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary. pp. 341–42. ISBN 978-0307481474.
- ^ Chang, Kang-i Sun; Saussy, Haun; Kwong, Charles Yim-tze (1999). Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism. p. 79. ISBN 0804732310.
- ^ Lee, Lily Xiao Hong; Wiles, Sue (2015). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Tang Through Ming 618-1644. Vol. II. pp. 899–900. ISBN 978-1317515616.